Author's Note

Semantic satiation is a phenomenon whereby the uninterrupted repetition of a word eventually leads to a sense that the word has lost its meaning. Also known as semantic saturation or verbal satiation.

The concept of semantic satiation was described by E. Severance and M.F. Washburn in The American Journal of Psychology in 1907. The term was introduced by psychologists Leon James and Wallace E. Lambert in the article "Semantic Satiation Among Bilinguals" in the Journal of Experimental Psychology (1961).

who made the joke
who said I felt like it
If I felt
cause after a while
FELT begins to look
a little weird
like those four letters
are meaningless
ice cream topped with
a cherry
melting into dark demons
sprinkled with jimmies
colored by the stars on
a lonely road